Jim Musser's High 5 for the week

Aug. 28, 2013

A terrific singer/songwriter, Fairfield-native Danielson once was a welcome denizen in local venues. A career move to special education was the scene’s loss, but it’s good to see this songbird’s still warbling. With Huskies blood not yet dried at Kinnick, downtown bars will be raucous and blurry, but this oasis just a few blocks from the epicenter of Jägermeister hoisters should be cool as the other side of the pillow.

AFoM Local 450 Fundraiser

The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St.

3 to 7 p.m. Sunday, $8 suggested donation

The fourth annual edition of the American Federation of Musicians’ local chapter fundraiser brings together a staggering variety of music, including Great American Songbook standards, classic jazz, folk, bluegrass, Dixieland, pop and rock. Scheduled performers include Dick Watson Group, J Hall Band, Greg and Jean Thompson, Patrick Hughes, Pigs and Clover, Threshold, Mutiny in the Parlor and Spontaneous Combustion — each performing about one-half hour.

’The Entertainers’

CSPS Hall, 1103 Third St. S.E., Cedar Rapids

7 p.m. Sunday, $7 ADV/$10 door

Iowa theatrical premiere of the heart-warming, award-winning documentary that chronicles the “World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest” held annually in Peoria, Ill. Cedar Rapids native Sean Watkins, the film’s executive producer and a one-time contestant, will play live piano renditions of ragtime and classical jazz favorites following the screening.

A different cake is promised every hour, too, since the same one over and over would never do.

The John Scofield Überjam Band

The Englert Theatre, 221 E. Washington St.

8 p.m. Wednesday, $35 tickets ($22 students/seniors)

At a spry 62, this Ohio-born guitar wizard continues to astound with a sprawling command of jazz hybrids over three-dozen-plus albums. He’s teamed with a cavalcade of great musicians and created a legacy of invention to which few contemporaries in his field (perhaps only Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny) can compare. His new disc, “Überjam Deux,” makes stops in Detroit (”Scotown”), Memphis (”Al Green Song”) and Jamaica, but never lingers anywhere for long.